Evan Sapio, the 18-year-old native of Queens who turned himself in to Albany Police after they released still images captured from the various YouTube videos posted online, is the son of a media bigwig.

It brings about an added dimension to the story not touched upon: the embarrassment and shame these individuals bring to their parents.

I can already see the comments calling Sapio a “bad father” and that something he did must have somehow contributed to his son’s behavior. But that’s bollocks. Everybody knows that kids make mistakes or sometimes do terrible things despite having good or even great parents and upbringings. Anybody who’d even suggest otherwise is either living in a deluded fantasy world of their own construction or transposing their own guilt over poor parenting onto the parents of Sapio and other students.

It gets particularly embarrassing in light of an editorial that appeared in the New York Daily News that partially blamed parents for the incident.